BUSINESS AND ADMINISTRATION
Employment contracts
Terms and conditionsAn employment contract is a very important document. It spells out the key things you can expect from your employer and what your employer expects from you. Once you’ve worked for your employer for two months, you have the legal right to receive details of your terms and conditions of employment in writing. This information may come in a letter or a formal contract of employment. Alternatively, you may get a document outlining the main terms of employment, with signposts to where you can find other essential information.

Key legislation
What's covered?Virtually every aspect of your employment is covered by law. In the UK, the law applies to businesses and organisations of all sizes and in all sectors. There are four main areas covered by legislation:

Sector specific legislationLegislation applies to all businesses and organisations. They must find out which laws / regulations apply to them so they can follow these laws correctly. They should also ensure that each employee knows the law and how it relates to his or her job role. If a business claimed they did not know the law, it would be no defence if they got into trouble for not following the law. In many organisations, employees are told all about general and industry-specific laws during the induction process. Specific laws and regulations apply to areas such as food safety, employment agencies, private security industries and many more.

The importance of legislation
Why have laws?Laws are created in business to protect employers, employees, customers and third parties. If laws didn’t exist, people would be unprotected and things may get out of control. There would be no clear way to resolve differences or difficulties. Laws help businesses to have rules of conduct that apply to all relevant parties. Other methods can also be used to resolve differences of opinion or behaviour that break these rules – such as courts / tribunals. Courts use an objective, evidence-based approach to solve problems to do with breaking the law, rather than using force or power to resolve an issue. Be informed!

Sources of informationYou can find useful information about employment rights and responsibilities in many different places! Some sources of information may be found within an organisation (known as internal sources) while other sources are found outside the organisation (known as external sources). Internal sources of information may include:

Representative bodies
Support for staffOne of the ways that employees can receive help and support in the workplace is through representative bodies. The best known examples of representative bodies are trade unions. Non-trade union representation may also be found in certain organisations. According to ACAS, there are 50% trade union and 50% non-trade union representatives in the UK.

Diversity
Everyone is differentPeople often assume that all employees in the workplace are the same. However, when you think about this in more detail, it's obvious that a huge amount of differences (or diversity) can exist in a workplace. A few categories of diversity can be seen on the right of this page! At times, differences are treated with suspicion or they are resisted....

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...will be paid monthly or weekly.
Working Hours – This is how many hours a week you will be working.
Holidays – this tells you when your holidays are.
Sickness
Notice Period
employment conditions
rights
responsibilities
duties
These are called the ‘terms’ of the contract.
Employees and employers must stick to a contract until it ends (e.g. by an employer or employee giving notice or an employee being dismissed) or until the terms are changed (usually by agreement between the employee and employer)
1.2 – Identify the main points of legislation affecting employers and employees.
Equal opportunities
Sex discrimination Act 1975/86
Race Relations Act 1976
Unlawful to discriminate against current or prospective employees who have a disability or who have had a disability in the past, employer has duty to make reasonable adjustments.
Equal pay act – Work of ‘equal pay’ must be paid at the same rate for men and women
Employment equality (Age) Regulations 2006 – Default retirement age at 65 with statutory right for individuals to request postponement of retirement beyond age 65.
Working time Regulations 2007 – Entitles to paid annual leave.
Rights to time off – Annual leave, paternity/maternity leave, absences, sickness and statutory sickness pay.
Employment Act 2002 – To help parents balance work and family commitments.
1.3 – Identify where to find information on employment...

...employment rights and responsibilities of the employee and employer
1. Identify four main points that would be included in a contract of employment. If possible, use an example contract to support your answer (feel free to obscure any confidential information).
Employer`s name
Duties and responsibilities
Hours of work
Salary
Date of commencement of employment
Job title
2a) List three key points of legislation that affect employers in abusinessenvironment.
Health and Safety
Data protection
Pay and Pensions
2b) List three key points of legislation that affect employees in a businessenvironment.
Health and Safety
Data protection
Employment rights and responsibilities
3. Identify a range of places where a person can find information on employment rights and responsibilities. You should identify at least two internal and two external sources of information.
Internal: Line Managers
Informed colleagues
External: Citizens Advice Bureau
Libraries
4. Describe how representative bodies can support employees.
Representative bodies can help to solve or consult employees upon any issues in health and safety, pay, pensions and etc. if employee thinks there was an unfair action taken against him in any of those aspects.
5. Identify employer and employee responsibilities for equality and diversity in...

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Unit one: Principles of personalresponsibilities and working in a businessenvironment
Assessment
You should use this file to complete your Assessment.
The first thing you need to do is save a copy of this document, either onto your computer or a disk
Then work through your Assessment, remembering to save your work regularly
When you’ve finished, print out a copy to keep for reference
Then, go to www.vision2learn.com and send your completed Assessment to your tutor via your My Study area – make sure it is clearly marked with your name, the course title and the Unit and Assessment number.
Please note that this Assessment document has 8 pages and is made up of 7 Sections.
Name:
Section 1 – Know the employment rights and responsibilities of the employee and employer
1. Identify four main points that would be included in a contract of employment. If possible, use an example contract to support your answer (feel free to obscure any confidential information).
Place of work:
Employees Name
Job Title:
Start Date:
Health and safety, employment rights and responsibilities, pay and pension and Data protection.
2a) List three key points of legislation that affect employers in a businessenvironment.
Data protection
Health and safety
Equality
2b) List three key points of legislation that affect...

...Unit one: Principles of personalresponsibilities and working in a businessenvironment
Assessment
You should use this file to complete your Assessment.
• The first thing you need to do is save a copy of this document, either onto your computer or a disk
• Then work through your Assessment, remembering to save your work regularly
• When you’ve finished, print out a copy to keep for reference
• Then, go to www.vision2learn.com and send your completed Assessment to your tutor via your My Study area – make sure it is clearly marked with your name, the course title and the Unit and Assessment number.
Please note that this Assessment document has 8 pages and is made up of 7 Sections.
Name: Adriana Marina Ivan – Business and Administration-Unit One
Section 1 – Know the employment rights and responsibilities of the employee and employer
1. Identify four main points that would be included in a contract of employment. If possible, use an example contract to support your answer (feel free to obscure any confidential information).
The four main points that would be included in a contract of employment are:
• Name of employer and employee
• Job Title
• Duties and responsibilities
• Confidentiality
2a) List three key points of legislation that affect employers in a business...

...Unit one: Principles of personalresponsibilities and working in a businessenvironment
Assessment
You should use this file to complete your Assessment.
• The first thing you need to do is save a copy of this document, either onto your computer or a disk
• Then work through your Assessment, remembering to save your work regularly
• When you’ve finished, print out a copy to keep for reference
• Then, go to www.vision2learn.com and send your completed Assessment to your tutor via your My Study area – make sure it is clearly marked with your name, the course title and the Unit and Assessment number.
Please note that this Assessment document has 8 pages and is made up of 7 Sections.
Section 1 – Know the employment rights and responsibilities of the employee and employer
1. Identify four main points that would be included in a contract of employment. If possible, use an example contract to support your answer (feel free to obscure any confidential information).
1. Name of the parties. (Employer’s and employee’s name)
2. Date of commencement of employment.
3. Job title with description of duties and responsibilities.
4. Salary.
2a) List three key points of legislation that affect employers in a businessenvironment.
1. Health and safety.
-Health and Safety at Work Act 1974
2. Data protection....

...one: Principles of personalresponsibilities and working in a businessenvironment
Assessment
You should use this file to complete your Assessment.
• The first thing you need to do is save a copy of this document, either onto your computer or a disk
• Then work through your Assessment, remembering to save your work regularly
• When you’ve finished, print out a copy to keep for reference
• Then, go to www.vision2learn.com and send your completed Assessment to your tutor via your My Study area – make sure it is clearly marked with your name, the course title and the Unit and Assessment number.
Please note that this Assessment document has 8 pages and is made up of 7 Sections.
Name:
Section 1 – Know the employment rights and responsibilities of the employee and employer
1. Identify four main points that would be included in a contract of employment. If possible, use an example contract to support your answer (feel free to obscure any confidential information).
- Hours of week
- Dismissal
- Salary
- Holiday Entitlement
2a) List three key points of legislation that affect employers in a businessenvironment.
- Health & Safety
- Pay & pensions
- Data Protection
2b) List three key points of legislation that affect employees in a businessenvironment.
- Pension
- Pay
-...

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Unit 201
Principles of PersonalResponsibilities and Working in a BusinessEnvironment
Level: 2
Credit value: 4
NDAQ number: L/601/7638
Unit aim
This unit is about understanding employment rights; health, safety and security; how to work with others and how to manage and improve own work in a businessenvironment.
Learning outcomes
There are seven learning outcomes to this unit. The learner will be able to:
1. Know the employment rights and responsibilities of the employee and employer
2. Understand the purpose of health, safety and security procedures in a businessenvironment
3. Understand how to communicate effectively with others
4. Understand how to work with and support colleagues
5. Know how to plan own work and be accountable to others
6. Understand the purpose of improving own performance in a businessenvironment and how to do so
7. Understand the types of problems that may occur in a businessenvironment and how to deal with them
Guided learning hours
It is recommended that 32 hours should be allocated for this unit, although patterns of delivery are likely to vary.
Details of the relationship between the unit and relevant national standards (if appropriate)
This unit is linked to the Business...

...Business Administration Level 2
Hints and tips for Unit 1 Assessment
(NB: Please don’t cut and paste from websites as this is not acceptable practice for assessment purposes.)
If you wish to use other information you have researched beyond the course materials:
1. Make sure it is additional to the Business Administration course material.
2. Make sure it supports/is relevant to your answer.
3. Quote the source.
The main thing to remember when constructing each answer is to be as robust as you can. Try to include as much relevant detail from the learning materials as you can. It is very important to use your own words. The following information should be helpful to you. If you have any queries get in touch with your tutor using v-mail.
Section 1
Q2a &amp; b. This question is in two parts and you must give three key areas of legislation that affect both the employer &amp; the employee. The key areas of legislation can be the same for both the employer and employee.
Q4. In this question you need to describe how representative bodies can support employees. A good source of information regarding trade unions can be found at www.tuc.org.uk
Q5. This question is in two-parts (employer &amp; employee responsibilities) and you must answer both parts to pass the question successfully. In addition to the learning materials EHRC - Advice and guidance has some excellent information which will help you answer...

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